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Saturday, March 03, 2012

1st Unofficial 5D3 Full Samples

http://www.dcfever.com/news/readnews.php?id=6365

Scroll to the bottom of the page for those samples including high ISO ones. Click on "Ori" for the original pictures.

Seems to be even more impressive than the official ones! ;-D The ISO 3200 sample has better details and less noise than an ISO 400 image from the K-5! :-o

N.B. The samples were taken with a pre-production 5D3 unit as stated.

Update: There is yet another 1st preview of the pre-production 5D3 at the same venue, where I think was a product release function arranged by Canon Hong Kong:-

http://www.eprice.com.hk/dc/talk/1417/3149/

Various full samples at various ISO speeds are available for download. The subjects are more or less the same as those of the above.
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badsykes · 682 weeks ago

1. For first time i see pencil's made by Mitsubishi ..... I didn't think they produce pencil's
2. You compare a camera that was released in 2010 with this one from 2012 and they are different class imo ...Now the K-5 is around 1000$ and the Canon 5d3 maybe around 3000$ ... In 10 years all dslr will be FF ....I will wait that moment when iso 3200 will be something like iso 400 now :)
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bandymelis · 682 weeks ago

Seems to be a good camera. Noise performance is good. I guess, its better by 1 stop (not more) than the K5. Shoots 6 fps. This is also good enough. But, sorry, does not justify paying more than 1K.
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Walt · 682 weeks ago

dpreview has some ISO samples of the 5D3 too and a test gallery of the D4. If you compare the D4 to the K-5 (RAW) the K-5 is very close to it up to 12,800 where the D4 slowly pulls away a bit. K-5 looks a bit better at 12,800 than the 1D4 to my eyes. It will be interesting to see how the 5D3 fares in their tests. As for the D800, if the D4 is not any better than the old D3s the D800 will surely not do as well at higher ISOs. Then again with that much resolution any size reduction will mask the noise.
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Ying · 682 weeks ago

Are we looking at the same test pattern? In the still life test scene, K-5 by 1600 the details on the yellow feather at bottom right is all smudged. another above that and it's quite piitful to watch compared to the D4
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Walt · 682 weeks ago

I was speaking of the RAW samples. The jpegs are another story. Look at the spools of thread for the noise floor.
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Walt · 682 weeks ago

Sorry Ying, you are correct. The yellow feather loses detail on the K-5 at 1600 RAW, whereas the D4 holds up better there. Oddly, though things are not as extreme with the green feather. Still I am somehow disappointed that the D4 does not seem to be much different than the 3Ds ( I know it's lower res, but not much). Maybe sensor technology hit a plateau a couple of years ago.
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Ying · 682 weeks ago

Hey Walt, interesting observation on the green colours - I think it's something to do with the Bayer pattern filter layout - for each 'effective pixel', there are 2 green micro-elements to one each of red and blue, like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thu...

So in effect, we have double the green channel information per -sub-pixel level (I think the reason is something to do human eyes are more sensitive to green colours?)

That would explain the better green handling compared tp K-5 - it hasn't hit rock bottom yet :)
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Ying · 682 weeks ago

Walt, good observation, I think the reason behind better green channel is that the Bayer patter used in K-5 CMOS has 2 green sub-pixel elements to every single Red/ Blue.
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Michael A. · 682 weeks ago

One would hope for better performance against almost 2 years old gear.. duh... But pricing might work as a bugs repellent... :o)
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Ivan · 682 weeks ago

Looks great, better than mark 2 (new AF, better Hi ISO modes), the price is great too but not a problem for profis ;-)
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Richard · 682 weeks ago

The retail price in OZ is 30% higher than the Mk 2 and 25% higher than the Nikon D800, which itself is 30% higher than the D700. APSC is looking better and better.
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loock · 682 weeks ago

A so called APS-C DSLR, witch is not a real DSLR because the viewfinder is way to small, worth 200 USD new, at most, and that only if you have no more than that.
So, in my view, new APS-C DSLR price, is absurdly high.

Now, 5D MK II can be found new in store, iven for as low as 1345 USD, but iven if I don't like CaNikon proneness to flare, I can get a Digital back for Contax 645, for iven a bigger format and Carl Zeiss T* lenses, or a Sony A900/850.
Sure, I wold like more to have a FF35 Pentax DSLR, to be able to use my great smc Pentax lenses.
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Mr.Big · 682 weeks ago

LMAO!

Troll much?
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bandymelis · 682 weeks ago

This is a complete nonsense. I have made excellent pictures that have been printed 1 m in size (whatever that is in inches), and have not heard a single complaint about the quality of the APS-C made image. If these were made with a FF camera, there would have been NO DIFFERENCE in quality. A FF camera would be worth those $3500 if it lasted. But it DOES NOT LAST. So for things that do not last I would never pay more than 1K, HOWEVER GOOD THEY APPEAR AT FIRST SIGHT. The K5 is still unbeatable camera pricewise.
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Ying · 682 weeks ago

Bullshit much?

A DSLR means Digital Single Lens Reflex.
Does it have a digital sensor? A single lens (at any given time mounted)? A Mirror? Then it is a DSLR.
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aurele · 682 weeks ago

the sample images are crystal clear. impressive :)

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